Music games’ next generation: ‘Power Gig’ with real guitar (USA Today)

Monday, March 8th, 2010

An upcoming music video game gives you the power to progress from fantasy guitar hero to true six-string slinger.

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Racy billboards called ‘disgusting’ (Windsor Star)

Friday, March 5th, 2010

Feaaturing naked men with coconuts over their genitals and a naked woman with a guitar between her spread legs — do new billboards advertising a local rock radio station go too far?

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Racy billboards called 'disgusting' (Windsor Star)

Top 10 Guys: The summary (USA Today)

Tuesday, March 2nd, 2010

The guys had to perform a day early Tuesday night, because of Crystal Bowersox's sudden hospitalization. And while most of them sang better than they did during that miserable first week, few of them managed complete about-faces. One who did was Michael Lynche.

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Casey James turns into a triple threat with Gavin DeGraw and his guitar (USA Today)

Tuesday, March 2nd, 2010

Casey breaks out his blue Fender electric guitar for Gavin DeGraw's I Don't Want to Be. It's not the best vocal performance of the song this show has seen -- sort of Texas roadhouse rock version of the song -- but he's clearly a serious picker. And if this performance is about anything, really, it's about establishing him as a guitar force to be reckoned with. If his guitar connects with the ...

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Hard-driving blues rock makes Albert Cummings ‘feel so good’ (The Morning Call)

Saturday, February 27th, 2010

Albert Cummings is one of the country's top blues guitarists. That's not his day job, though.

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Johnny Cash Birthday Celebration (Inland Empire Weekly)

Thursday, February 25th, 2010

Johnny Cash Birthday Celebration

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EXCLUSIVE: Church arson tipster torn about turning in suspects (KLTV 7 Tyler)

Tuesday, February 23rd, 2010

A major break in the church arson case came from a friend who turned Bourque and McAllister in to authorities.

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Anonymous tipster plays role in church arson arrests (KLTV 7 Tyler)

Monday, February 22nd, 2010

Through a lot of research, we're learning exactly how the two men charged in the Dover Baptist Church arson were caught.

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Teen Musician Learns Expensive Lesson (KHON 2 Honolulu)

Thursday, February 18th, 2010

Molokai teenager Keaka Kamakana is singing a sad tune after his Fender bass guitar was severely damaged on a recent flight from Oahu on Go! Mokulele Airlines.

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A Guitar Hero Won’t Play the Game (New York Times)

Friday, February 12th, 2010

At 65, Jeff Beck remains the greatest guitarist that millions of people have never heard of, but he has resisted making concessions that would allow him to be heard more widely.

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